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Shannon Lamb did not indicate a motive for yesterday’s killing of Amy Prentiss, 41, nor did he suggest he planned to hurt anyone else. “We don’t know why this man did what he did”, Cleveland Police Chief Charles Bingham said on Tuesday.

Although a clear motive for the Delta State shooting has yet to be determined, police believe Lamb may have been involved in another homicide on Monday, about 300 miles from the university shooting, in the town of Gautier.

The Biloxi Sun Herald reported that the woman lived with Lamb.

Shannon Lamb is suspected of the fatal shooting of Amy Prentiss, who he lived with on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, and Ethan Schmidt, a professor at Delta State University 300 miles away.

One of his history professors at Emporia State University where Schmidt studied described him as one of the “brightest students” she’d ever taught.